I am getting ready to move into another computer but I need to remove all
information such as emails, etc. where do I have to go within Windows XP
directory to delete personnal information? All help will be greatly
appreciated.
In news:xXpXh.10885$vD4.1618@bigfe9,
Jim <helieco@yahoo.com> hunted and pecked:
> I am getting ready to move into another computer but I need to remove all
> information such as emails, etc. where do I have to go within Windows XP
> directory to delete personnal information? All help will be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Jim Bennett
Jim wrote:
> I am getting ready to move into another computer but I need to remove all
> information such as emails, etc. where do I have to go within Windows XP
> directory to delete personnal information? All help will be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Jim Bennett
>
>
To protect your personal information and data from any future users
of average skills, you should, at the very least, format the hard drive.
If you wish to do a more thorough job of protecting your personal
data, WipeDrive
(http://www.whitecanyon.com/wipedrive...hard-drive.php) meets U.S.
DoD standards for securely cleaning surplus unclassified hard drives,
and could be used before formatting and reinstalling the OS and
applications.
thank you for the replies but, I was hopping to avoid reformating the hard
disk.
Jim
"Bruce Chambers" <bchambers@cable0ne.n3t> wrote in message
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> Jim wrote:
>> I am getting ready to move into another computer but I need to remove all
>> information such as emails, etc. where do I have to go within Windows XP
>> directory to delete personnal information? All help will be greatly
>> appreciated.
>>
>> Jim Bennett
>
>
> To protect your personal information and data from any future users of
> average skills, you should, at the very least, format the hard drive. If
> you wish to do a more thorough job of protecting your personal data,
> WipeDrive (http://www.whitecanyon.com/wipedrive...hard-drive.php)
> meets U.S. DoD standards for securely cleaning surplus unclassified hard
> drives, and could be used before formatting and reinstalling the OS and
> applications.
>
>
>
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>
> Bruce Chambers
>
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Jim wrote:
> thank you for the replies but, I was hopping to avoid reformating the hard
> disk.
>
Sorry, but if you really want to be sure that all of your personal
information is gone, formatting is the simplest of the possible
solutions. And even that is protection only from the computer user of
merely average skills. In addition to the normal data files (documents,
pictures, emails, etc.), there will be hundreds, if not thousands, of
temporary Internet files, cookies, and registry entries to be hunted
down and eliminated.
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